Kozy Kape (Vida) arrived yesterday morning by mail and was placed on the counter of my desk. I was so happy I hugged the box.
Vida is one of my favorite fictional characters from Richard Brautigan's story, "The Abortion" about a librarian who receives hand written books all hours of the day at a strange library in San Francisco. One day Vida comes in with a book about how much she hates her tragically drop dead gorgeous body. Brautigan has the most wonderful way of describing her awkwardness in percentages. He references it throughout her steady transformation from awkward and self hating to jovial and accepting with the help of his honesty, a candy bar and his friendly clothes.
"She had lost about 80% of her awkwardness since she had come to the library that evening late last year. The 20% she had left was intriguing."
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